The View’s Whoopi Goldberg addresses her mention in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The updated full list of the names mentioned in the Jeffrey Epstein files was handed down to the Congress. According to officials it includes “305 prominent figures,” including celebrities, politicians, and A-list stars. However, just being mentioned in the files doesn’t immediately suggest any wrongdoing or involvement in the Epstein crimes, officials say.
The fact that Golden Age actress Marilyn Monroe, who died decades before Epstein’s crimes, is on the list shows just how broad the archive’s references are.
One of the names that appears on the list is that of actress and The View host Whoopi Goldberg.
Following the release of the records, she decided to speak out and explain her mention in the files.
“In the name of transparency, my name is in the files, yes!” Goldberg, 70, shared on the Tuesday, February 17, episode of The View. “And what does it say? ‘Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco. John Lennon’s charity is paying for it.’ It should say Julian’s Charity. ‘They don’t want to charter, so they are looking for private owners. Here’s the info,’ and they give all the information and they are saying do you want to offer your G2?”
Joy Behar, co-host, asked, “So, basically anyone could end up on the list?” Goldberg then went on to explain that before any publications wrote of her alleged connections to Epstein, she wanted to make it clear that the two were not friends.
“I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend,” she said. “I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged. People actually believe that I was with him. Honey, come on. Every man I’ve been with, you’ve known about him because either the Enquirer wrote about it. People wrote about this stuff.”
She also added that she has never been on the plane because she’s afraid of flying.
Sarah Haines also stood up for Goldberg, saying that names of celebrities can appear in those files for various reasons, noting that even the names of Elvis Presley and Marylin Monroe were included in the recently released documents.
“A lot of reasons your name can be mentioned is news articles, third-party emails, contacts,” Haines, 48, said. “Wealthy, famous people often cross in professional circles and social circles, so that’s not the surprising part.”
Haines added, “I think the part most people — including myself — are looking for is an accountability for the people that had a depth of relationship, the timing of that relationship and the nature of that relationship.
“Nobody wants to know that young girls were victimized and because of power and money, people turned their cheeks. Nobody should be above scrutiny. No amount of status should soften abuse.”
The only direct link between Whoopi Goldberg and Jeffrey Epstein that could be found in the documents is an email from an unknown sender to Epstein on May 8, 2013.
In it, the sender asks if Epstein would be able to lend Goldberg his plane so she could fly to Monaco. The reason for her trip was an invite to an event hosted by the White Feather Foundation, an environmental and health charity founded by Julian Lennon. The sender also mentioned that the cost of the trip would be covered by the charity, which preferred using a private plane rather than a charter service.
Epstein’s answer to the email was a brief “no thnaks (sic),” according to the GB News.
While initial releases of the Epstein files occurred at the end of last year, the Justice Department released over 3 million additional documents related to the case in January, 2026.
The name of Whoopi Goldberg does appear elsewhere in the documents,but that doesn’t prove that she has ever socialized with the disgraced financier. A great many of these references are merely newsletters promoting events featuring her.
Goldberg and her co-hosts have been discussing the Epstein files during numerous occasions on the show, with her first bringing up rumors of her name being in the files during the January 4, 2024, episode.
“Apparently, they said I was on the island. And I don’t go anywhere,” she said at the time, in reference to Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands. “So I’m just going to say — and there’s just been a lot of stuff recently, I don’t know what I’ve done to anybody — but apparently there are a lot of the sites people don’t realize they can be harmful.”
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